[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] DPDK ethdev callback support
Declan Doherty
declan.doherty at intel.com
Fri Feb 13 16:48:53 CET 2015
On 13/02/15 15:39, John McNamara wrote:
> This patchset is for a small addition to the ethdev library, to
> add in support for callbacks at the RX and TX stages. This allows
> packet processing to be done on packets before they get returned
> to applications using rte_eth_rx_burst call.
>
> See the RFC cover letter for the use cases:
>
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-December/010491.html
>
> For the post-RFC version we spent some time investigating Stephen Hemminger's
> suggestion of using the userspace RCU (read-copy-update) library for
> SMP safety:
>
> http://urcu.so/
>
> The default liburcu (which defaulted to liburcu-mb) requires the least
> interaction from the end user but showed a 25% drop in packet throughput
> in the callback sample app.
>
> The liburcu-qsbr (quiescent state) variant showed a 1% drop in packet
> throughput in the callback sample app. However it requires registered
> RCU threads in the program to periodically announce quiescent states.
> This makes it more difficult to implement for end user applications.
>
> For this release we will document that adding and removing callbacks
> is not thread safe.
>
> Note: Sample application documentation to follow in a patch update.
>
> Version 2 changes:
> * Added ABI versioning.
> * Doxygen clarifications.
>
> Version 1 changes:
> * Added callback removal functions.
> * Minor fixes.
>
>
> John McNamara (1):
> abi: Added rxtx callback functions to ABI versioning
>
> Richardson, Bruce (3):
> ethdev: rename callbacks field to intr_cbs
> ethdev: Add in data rxtx callback support
> examples: example showing use of callbacks.
>
> app/test/virtual_pmd.c | 2 +-
> examples/rxtx_callbacks/Makefile | 57 ++++++++
> examples/rxtx_callbacks/basicfwd.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> examples/rxtx_callbacks/basicfwd.h | 46 +++++++
> lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 175 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 191 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> lib/librte_ether/rte_ether_version.map | 4 +
> lib/librte_pmd_bond/rte_eth_bond_api.c | 2 +-
> 8 files changed, 685 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 examples/rxtx_callbacks/Makefile
> create mode 100644 examples/rxtx_callbacks/basicfwd.c
> create mode 100644 examples/rxtx_callbacks/basicfwd.h
>
Series Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>
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